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Elizabeth Anscombe – More Than Wittgenstein’s “Old Man”
Tomas Elliott examines how Elizabeth Anscombe helped to establish the English-language reputation of Ludwig Wittgenstein and highlights her own status as a philosopher. Ludwig Wittgenstein was an...
“The great and awful book of human folly”: Charles Mackay’s Popular Delusions
The South Sea Bubble, a Scene in ‘Change Alley in 1720, Edward Matthew Ward, 1847 By Hector Kociak In modern Britain, where bold and successful inroads upon public credulity seem to be a daily...
Morris on Marx
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth, Peter Harrington has created a special catalogue showcasing a selection of his books, alongside items pertaining to his life and work....
The Books That Made Europe
A selection of books relating to this blog post can currently be found on our Curator's Choice page. Peter Harrington is proud to be associated with an exhibition currently running in Rome, at the...
Women’s Work: Women in Economics, Politics and Philosophy
The contribution of eminent male thinkers to intellectual and public life is well documented: we all know our Kant from our Keynes, our Wittgenstein from our Wilberforce. It’s no secret that...
Bloomsberries
Leafy London squares, boldly painted furniture, cottage-style gardens and unorthodox ménages: the loose circle of writers and artists which came to be known as the Bloomsbury Group are perhaps as...
Tea Room and Cafeteria Management: an Unlikely Precursor to Wave Theory
It is strange to think that one of modern economics most formative theories wouldn’t have happened were it not for a book about managing tea rooms. Peter Harrington has recently acquired the curious...
Lombard Street – A Cautionary Tale for The British Banking System
A bank collapses, and the public rush to withdraw their savings as the fear of losing everything sets in. It’s a familiar story, but isn’t necessarily one that exists only in the twentieth and...
Damnably Subversive but Extraordinarily Real: The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
Touring Britain this summer is the Townsend Productions theatre adaptation of Robert Tressell's* socialist novel The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. A semi-autobiographical account of the plight...
The Birth of Mad Men: Ernest Dichter, Psychoanalysis and Consumerism
Mid twentieth-century America. In a corporate board room, hazy with tobacco smoke and whiskey fumes, a man pitches innovative new advertising ideas. Soap isn't just for mundane hygiene issues, it's...
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